--- title: 'Operations at Kota' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/operations-kota-remote-5ztqqqn3keve' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-28' --- # Operations at Kota - **Company:** Kota - **Location:** Remote - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-10-25 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-28 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kota/368e6188-e321-492a-8b92-b969e995d2e2 ## Job description Operations at Kota, always open to exceptional people Benefits operations, support, insurer and broker partnerships, finance, compliance, people and business operations. Dublin, London or remote (role dependent) Some of these are live roles right now, others aren't yet. Either way, we're building a pool of people we'd want to hire into the teams that keep Kota running as we grow over the next few months. We're around 100 people in a regulated, multi-country business, and a lot of what needs doing doesn't have an owner yet. The people who do well here find the gap and close it rather than waiting for the remit. If that's you, your job title matters less to us than what you've actually fixed. Who this is for - Benefits operations: scheme setup, renewals, policy events and the insurer relationships behind them. You own a case to resolution rather than passing it on, and you know accuracy here lands on real people - Customer support: you investigate before you respond, and you can tell someone bad news plainly without hiding behind process language - Insurer and broker partnerships: you build the supply side, not the demand side. New carriers, new markets, and the relationships that make a product possible rather than sellable - Finance: you build the model rather than maintain it, and you're comfortable in a business that doesn't look like standard SaaS - Compliance, risk and legal: regulated, multi-country, and you make it work rather than making it slower - People and talent: you've built a function rather than inherited one - Business operations, strategy and chief of staff types: you make the whole thing run and you're happy being the person who notices first - Something else: if none of those quite fit but you can see where you'd add something here, tell us What happens next If what you've told us matches a live role, we'll move you into that process. If it doesn't yet, you'll be in the pool and we'll come back to you when something opens that fits. We're a small team, so we can't promise a conversation with everyone who applies, but we do read everything and we'd rather hear from you early than not at all. ## About Kota ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Kota builds the internet’s infrastructure for employee benefits, offering a single platform that connects companies to health, life, and retirement providers across every market. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A) - **Headquarters**: Dublin, Ireland - **Founded**: 2022 - **Founders**: Luke Mackey (CEO & Co-Founder) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Financial Services / Employee Benefits (InsurTech / HR Tech) - **Target customers**: B2B; core fit for growing UK and Ireland companies, particularly SME and mid-market teams; enterprise functionality available for larger organizations. - **Mission or purpose**: To build the internet infrastructure for financial benefits — powering health insurance, pension, and life insurance for a new generation of employees. ## Products & Services - **Kota Platform**: An all-in-one employee benefits platform that replaces both traditional brokers and legacy benefits software. It lets HR teams set up, manage, and track pension, health insurance, life assurance, income protection, and critical illness cover in one place. - **Kota Embed (API)**: An API that allows partners (e.g., HRIS platforms like Remote and Helios) to embed benefits directly into their own products. - **Spend Cards**: Issue and manage cards for employee allowances with automated controls, reporting, and payroll reconciliation. - **Flexible Benefits**: Employees can choose benefits that matter to them (e.g., gym, wellness, travel) — all managed in the Kota app. - **Built-in Brokerage**: Kota is a regulated insurance intermediary (licensed by the Central Bank of Ireland and an appointed representative of the FCA in the UK), so procurement and management happen in one system. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed. - **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$22.4M** (€20m+), with a $14.5M Series A announced in May 2025. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Eurazeo (lead Series A), EQT Ventures, Northzone, Frontline Ventures, 9Yards, Plug and Play Ventures. - **Growth Signals**: - Headcount grew **76.4% YoY** to 61 employees. - Powering benefits for **65,000+ employees** (as of mid-2025, growing to 100,000+ by 2026). - **13 active job postings** as of mid-2025. - Licensed by the Central Bank of Ireland as an insurance intermediary — the only insurance benefits platform with regulatory approval across the EEA and the UK. - Powers benefits for platforms like Remote and Helios. ## Competitive Advantages - **Regulatory moat**: Kota is a regulated broker and platform in one — a combination that is rare and difficult to replicate. Licensed by the Central Bank of Ireland and FCA in the UK, it can procure and manage insurance directly. - **Deep carrier integrations**: Direct integrations with insurance carriers across dozens of countries, removing costly intermediation and enabling real-time, end-to-end automation. - **API-first infrastructure**: Unlike legacy benefits software, Kota offers an API that lets partners embed benefits natively, creating a platform ecosystem. - **All-in-one approach**: Replaces brokers, portals, spreadsheets, and admin — HRIS sync, payroll reconciliation, employee app, and brokerage all in one system. ## Strategic Focus - **Expand carrier reach**: Deepening integrations with insurance carriers in more markets (UK, Ireland, Portugal, Italy, Spain, Brazil, and beyond). - **Deepen core product experience**: Building the best possible experience for health insurance, pension, and life assurance. - **Scale the platform**: Growing the team (hiring across engineering, design, sales, and people functions) to support rapid customer acquisition and product development. - **Embedded benefits**: Growing the “Kota Embed” API to become the default way other platforms offer benefits. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Small, high-bar team where everyone owns real work from day one. Described as “first-class and ready for anything” with values of integrity and care. - **Remote/hybrid policy**: Hybrid/remote-friendly with a WFH stipend. Team is spread across Ireland, UK, Portugal, Italy, Spain, and Brazil. - **Notable perks**: Competitive salary, stock options, health insurance, up to 5% matched pension contribution, generous paid time off, WFH stipend. - **Engineering culture**: Opportunity to design a new category from scratch, work directly with founders, and ship work that reaches real employees on day one. Open roles include Product Engineer (Frontend/Backend), Senior Mobile Engineer, and Senior Product Designer. - **Impact**: Building infrastructure that supports employees through illness, loss, or retirement — a mission-driven, high-responsibility environment. ## Sources 1. [kota.io](https://www.kota.io/) 2. [kota.io/careers](https://www.kota.io/careers) 3. [kota.io/blog/series-a-announcement](https://www.kota.io/blog/series-a-announcement) 4. [LinkedIn - Kota](https://ie.linkedin.com/company/kotabenefits) 5. 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